Ben Lutgens writes:
 > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:00:41AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
 > >On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:17:55AM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:
 > >> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to find and use the compose
 > >> key? 
 > >
 > >WTF is a compose key?  Some shortcut to open your favorite editor???
 > >Check your window manager keybindings.
 > 
 > It's probably something to do with emacs. I noticed the original posters
 > X-Mailer was set to one of the emacs muas. Perhaps you need a special
 > GNUEmacs keyboard ;-)

NO!  NO!  NO!

Ther are actually people out there who speak LANGUAGES OTHER THAN
ENGLISH and those languages EVEN HAVE LETTERS THAT WE DON'T USE IN
ENGLISH.